Farmington Municipal Schools

Farmington Municipal Schools (FMS) is a public school district in Farmington, New Mexico. The District covers an area of approximately 808-square-miles in San Juan County. The District has more than 11,000 students enrolled with many students. Majority of our students live or are from the Navajo Nation, we also have Hispanic, white, African American, and Asian students. The City of Farmington, a place where outdoor lovers and active families thrive, is nestled in the picturesque northwest corner of New Mexico.

Our vision is to continue to serve high quality nutritional meals. We would like to incorporate a robust nutrition education program and implement a farm to school initiative with a district-wide composting program, onsite school gardens and introduce our students to the local food system farming techniques, education, and immersion into growing plants. Some of our service members will be doing direct food education in the classroom. We will also have one district level position to help execute and implement the district-wide goals.

FoodCorps service members at Farmington Municipal Schools are a part of a New Mexico Cohort that includes 9 service members in 4 difference communities across the state.

Service sites in New Mexico are located in what has come to be known as the cities of Farmington, Bernalillo, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Anthony. We acknowledge and seek to continually honor that all land within the present borders of New Mexico were originally entrusted and stewarded by Indigenous Peoples. Through a journey of cultural humility, we serve at each site with the knowledge that each of these geographical and cultural boundaries have been constructed as a result of unjust historical events. New Mexico prides itself on our population, which consists of a majority of People of Color, and the deep well of cultural assets each ethnic group adds to our communities. As a result of racist ideologies and concurrent policies that have systematically marginalized these populations, New Mexico currently has the lowest quality of life for children and some of highest hunger and poverty rates in the nation. With this historical pretext and a systems change approach as the foundation, service members will engage with children, families and communities to offer food education through a decolonial, equitable, anti-racist lens with support from site supervisors, community, and state staff.